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Acoustic Strength-based Motion Tracking

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Accurate device motion tracking enables many applications like Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR). To make these applications available in people's daily life, low-cost acoustic-based motion tracking methods are proposed. However, existing acoustic-based methods are all based on distance estimation. These methods measure the distance between a speaker and a microphone. With a speaker or microphone array, it can get multiple estimated distances and further achieve multidimensional motion tracking. The weakness of distance-based motion tracking methods is that they need large array size to get accurate results. Some systems even require an array larger than 1 m. This weakness limits the adoption of existing solutions in a single device like a smart speaker. To solve this problem, we propose Acoustic Strength-based Angle Tracking (ASAT) System and further implement a motion tracking system based on ASAT. ASAT achieves angle tracking by creating a periodically changing sound field. A device with a microphone will sense the periodically changing sound strength in the sound field. When the device moves, the period of received sound strength will change. Thus we can derive the angle change and achieve angle tracking. The ASAT-based system can obtain the localization accuracy as 5 cm when the distance between the speaker and the microphone is in the range of 3 m.

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Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies  Volume 4, Issue 4
December 2020
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DOI:10.1145/3444864
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Published: 18 December 2020
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  1. angle tracking
  2. localization
  3. sound field
  4. strength

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